Paul Murton

The Highlands by Paul Murton takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the breathtakingly beautiful Scottish Highlands. Alongside the well-trodden paths of popular destinations like Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness, and the Cairngorms, Paul explores remote and lesser-known locales hidden away from mainstream travelers. As he travels, Paul encounters a diverse array of modern Highlanders, including caber tossers, gamekeepers, lairds,...

Paul Murton has spent half a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world—the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of Scotland's rugged, six-thousand-mile coastline and sailed to over eighty islands. In this new and updated edition of his acclaimed book, The Hebrides, Paul visits each of the Hebridean islands in turn, introducing their myths...

Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north—the island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old counties of Caithness and Sutherland—which, for centuries, were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great classic, the Orkneyinga Saga. Today, this fascinating Scandinavian legacy can be found everywhere—in physical remains, place-names, local traditions and folklore, and much...